'Takeover' heists spike at banks here

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I get a little paranoid when I go into the lobby. Mainly because we cant carry in a bank here in NC.

Layout pretty much sucks. Corrals or open floor, one entrance (well, two doors, within a few feet of each other). Offices typically have glass walls, sont know how bullet resistant it is. Looks like the glass used on skyscrapers, department store windows, ect (laminated glass, like a car's windshield, but thicker). No real cover or concealment unless I jump the counter.

My plan? Well, I'd probably lay face-down on the floor, not say a word, and not look up. I'll probably say a little prayer while I'm down there too.

However, there is a bright side. With direct deposit, a debit card, phone, and online banking, I go to the window maybe once or twice a year (usually when I get paid back for my interest free loans to the feds and state). I rarely actually go into the bank. Maybe half a dozen times in my adult life. Once to open an account, three more to straighten out their screw ups, the last of those three were to close the account, once more to open an account at a different bank. I may be forgetting one.
 
If bank robberies are so uncommon, why is it every time I get cash from my bank (recently changed, but the observation hasn't) to go to a gun show, inevitably one or more of the hundreds has traces of the red dye on the edges?

Statistically to me, this meas a large percentage of the hundreds in circulation have been in a robbery attempt and recovered.

Around here, I think you are safer in the lobby than the drive through or ATM.

--wally.
 
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